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3. Michael Winterbottom (born 29 March 1961) is an English film director. He began his career working in British television before moving into features. Three of his films— Welcome to Sarajevo, Wonderland and 24 Hour Party People —have competed for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. [1]
Michael Winterbottom. Director: A Mighty Heart. Michael took an English degree at Oxford then trained in film at Bristol and London breaking into television via the cutting room at Thames Television. He made his directorial debut with two documentaries on Ingmar Bergman His production of Love Lies Bleeding won the Silver Award at the 1993 New ...
Michael Winterbottom. Director: A Mighty Heart. Michael took an English degree at Oxford then trained in film at Bristol and London breaking into television via the cutting room at Thames Television. He made his directorial debut with two documentaries on Ingmar Bergman His production of Love Lies Bleeding won the Silver Award at the 1993 New York Television Festival and the 4 part serial 'Family' has collected numerous awards at...
Michael Winterbottom is a prolific English filmmaker who has directed seventeen feature films in the past fifteen years. He began his career working in British television before moving into features. Three of his films — Welcome to Sarajevo, Wonderland and 24 Hour Party People — have been nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
Of Winterbottom’s literary films, the best is undoubtedly Jude (1996), an adaptation of the director’s favourite novel, Hardy’s Jude the Obscure, starring Kate Winslet and Christopher Eccleston as the cousins whose forbidden passion forces them to flee their community. Austere, frank and devastating, it’s as starkly beautiful as the ...
Aug 30, 2023 · EXCLUSIVE: Four years after his last full-length feature — the black comedy Greed, starring Steve Coogan as a venal business tycoon — Michael Winterbottom is back, this time with a political ...
Dec 1, 1997 · Winterbottom: Our hope when we made the film was that it might bring Sarajevo to the attention of people, because the starting point for making the film was a sense of the bizarreness — that ...
